Book Review: My Body

Title: My Body
Author: Emily Ratajkowski
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir

My Thoughts: I’m not even going to do a synopsis of this one because this book was just astoundingly bad. It is a compilation of stories of Emily, who is a model and actress primarily known for nudes and appearing nude in various videos, just going about insecurity after insecurity regarding her body, her looks, and how she stripped naked for powerful men. While I understand that we need to shine a light on this double standard for women and all that they have to do to get ahead in Hollywood, this book didn’t really make me feel like it was attempting to even do this. Rather, it felt like it was a spiral of insecurity after insecurity and how the author used her nudity to hide behind when in front of these people, but then overall just came off as insecure. Throughout the whole compilation of stories–many of which do not connect from one chapter to the next, almost as if these were random thoughts put together–there is no resolution; no self awareness, no reflection, no growth. Ideally I would have liked to see some kind of resolution–some kind of awareness of “this is making me feel insecure, let me go work on strengthening my boundaries, doing the inner work to heal whatever it is that is making me feel like putting myself in these situations is okay.” It was an exhausting read and I wouldn’t ever want to read this again.